Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

Her partner of 19-years carried out the worst mass shooting in Canadian history. Why Lisa Banfield decided to tell her story 07.02.2026 17:53 ↓

Guest: Sherri Aikenhead, journalist and writer, co-author of The First Survivor: Life with Canada’s Deadliest Mass Shooter

A former two-time Survivor contestant pulls back the curtains on realty TV in new novel called Escape 07.02.2026 17:35 ↓

Guest: Steven Fishbach, former Survivor contestant and author of Escape

New documentary reveals never before seen footage of the Miracle on Ice 07.02.2026 18:25 ↓

Guest: Max Gershberg, co-director of Miracle: The Boys of 80

Why are too few Canadians getting a good night’s sleep and what can you do about it? 07.02.2026 9:45 ↓

Guest: Dr. Michael Mak, sleep medicine specialist and staff psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Canada is about to open a consulate in Greenland, is that a good idea? 01.02.2026 18:01 ↓

Guest: Vincent Rigby, former national security advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Slater Family Professor of Practice at McGill University

Ottawa’s two billion trees scheme was a half-billion dollar boondoggle   01.02.2026 9:43 ↓

Guest: Tom Korski, Managing Editor, Blacklock’s Reporter 

He spent five decades in policing but found the time to write novels, remembering the late Chuck Konkel and his last book 31.01.2026 7:36 ↓

Guest: Robin Devine, wife of the late Chuck Konkel,author of Who has Buried the dead

Award-winning Canadian author Lindsay Wong takes a stab at horror with corpse brides and ghost weddings 31.01.2026 11:21 ↓

Guest: Lindsay Wong, author of Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies

Is Mark Carney’s new more in-your-face approach to Trump a mistake? 31.01.2026 17:46 ↓

Guest: Barry Appleton, Managing Partner, Appleton & Associates International Lawyers and Balsille Scholar, Balsillie School of International affairs

Revisiting The Spirit of Radio: New doc looks at the history of Toronto’s hugely influential station CFNY 102.1 31.01.2026 17:36 ↓

Guest: Alan Cross, host of The Ongoing History of New Music

How Betting Took Over Sports 25.01.2026 18:28 ↓

Guest: Danny Funt, journalist, author of Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling

How Prediction Markets Turned Life Into a Dystopian Gambling Experiment 25.01.2026 18:05 ↓

Guest: Saahil Desai, senior editor, The Atlantic

Why are senior federal civil servants being forced to take an 86hr course on Canadian colonialism? 25.01.2026 11:47 ↓

Guest: Tom Korski, Managing Editor, Blacklock’s Reporter

How much is consolidation in the food industry to blame for high grocery costs?  24.01.2026 18:17 ↓

Guest: Erroll Schweizer, former grocery store executive, creator of The Checkout grocery update on Substack, contributor to Forbes Magazine

Canadian music icon Bif Naked on a new album, a biopic and why Gen X rocks 24.01.2026 17:23 ↓

Guest: Beth Torbert aka Bif Naked, Canadian singer/songwriter   

Has Mark Carney bitten off more than he can chew with China? 24.01.2026 18:06 ↓

Guest: Jonathan Manthorpe, author of Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada,

Canadian rock Icon Kim Mitchell on his upcoming tour, a legendary career and why one of his biggest hits nearly got scrapped 18.01.2026 35:48 ↓

Guest: Kim Mitchell, singer/songwriter, Juno Award winner and Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee

Why the Crown-Indigenous Relations Ministry was ordered to release files on the search for residential school graves in Kamloops 18.01.2026 11:20 ↓

Guest: Tom Korski, Managing Editor, Blacklock’s Reporter 

You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. 17.01.2026 17:34 ↓

Guest: Laura Jedeed, writer and journalist, former US 82nd Airborne Division soldier